[ovs-discuss] ovs 2.4 dpdk ports

Traynor, Kevin kevin.traynor at intel.com
Mon Oct 12 16:19:36 UTC 2015


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of haris
> tanvir
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 8:57 AM
> To: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: [ovs-discuss] ovs 2.4 dpdk ports
> 
> Can someone explain the difference between(and elaborate) the following types
> of ports in ovs 2.4
> 
> 1. dpdk
physical NIC ports

> 2. dpdkr
dpdk ring ports, they can be used to read/write memory shared through ivshmem

> 3. dpdkvhostuser
qemu vhostuser ports

Have a look through the dpdk documentation http://www.dpdk.org/doc
or the INSTALL.DPDK.md




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